2008-04-21 Regular Council Session Agenda

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Trees/tree grates should be installed that meets the City’s standards. Trees provide various benefits for the road like reducing heat absorption of the sidewalks and reducing stormwater run off which can help prolong pavement life. The City’s standards for Olive Boulevard right-of-way and street design have been established to promote pedestrian activity and visual uniformity of the Olive Boulevard corridor. As noted in the City’s Olive Boulevard Land Use Study (April 2000), the Olive Boulevard corridor has the highest concentration of retail enterprises. It is also close to many residential areas. However, pedestrian connectivity and pedestrian activity is not occurring with any frequency due to the inadequate pedestrian facilities (i.e. street lighting, ADA accessible sidewalks, new sidewalk pavements, etc.). The physical conditions and current design of the pedestrian facilities as well as their interaction with vehicular access points (driveways and intersections) is inadequate to support the City’s objectives for revitalization in the Area. B. DSI ETERIORATION OF ITEMPROVEMENTS All of the parcels in the Area exhibit deterioration, and in some instances dilapidation, of Appendix B site improvements. These instances of deterioration are displayed in and include fascia in disrepair, cracking on masonry, and deteriorated asphalt parking lots, concrete entrance aprons, and sidewalks. These conditions are indicative of a lack of reinvestment in the Area. Examples include: Pot holes, wavy pavement and cracked pavement on driveway (Parcel 2); Peeling paint and boarded windows and doors (Parcel 6); Step cracking in exterior support walls (Parcel 7); Spalling concrete, detached guttering, rusted fencing, and step-cracking (Parcel 1); and Crumbling and wavy sidewalks. C. ISOP MPROPERUBDIVISION OR BSOLETELATTING The Area exhibits obsolescence in the form of obsolete platting. Obsolete platting includes parcels of limited or narrow size and configuration or parcels of irregular size or shape that would be difficult to develop on a planned basis and in a manner compatible with contemporary standards and requirements (including existing City zoning and/or development codes). Plats that created inadequate right-of-way widths for streets, alleys and other public right-of-ways, or which omitted easements for public utilities should also be considered obsolete. Obsolete site configuration refers to sites that do not meet current standards for site development, such as provision for open space, landscaping, parking, or loading space. The entire Area is zoned GC - “General Commercial District”. The requirements of the GC zoning district dictate that: 1) Development must occur on sites of at least 0.3 acres; 2) The minimum property line setback requirement shall be twenty (25) feet if adjacent to a residential district; and 3) Buildings and site improvements such as parking must not occupy more than seventy (70) percent of the total land area of the parcel if it is 20,000 square feet or greater in size.